Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.


Leonora Carrington

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A Ritual to Read to Each Other


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GERMANY KENT
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
DAVID BALDACCI
Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
DAVID BALDACCI
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Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
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JONATHAN DEE
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DAVID BALDACCI
I kill when I hunt and do not apologize for that, although I reserve the right to think about its im...
E. DONNALL THOMAS, JR.
I read that the investigation is not complete. Statements have yet to be recorded from several other...
MAHATHIR MOHAMAD
Philosophy is nice word, people would like to read on it, I feel rather reading book on philosophy o...
MANISH LAKHANI
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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WENDY SMITH
Unless they're utterly heartless, people put a certain value on human life. It keeps us from killing...
AMANDA BOUCHET
They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Woman novelists seem to have a reputation for being dowdy.
CATHERINE GASKIN
Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!
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Who am I?" she snaps. "I am America, Israel, England! What am I doing?" She waits another long momen...
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YOU KNOW HOW IT IS. YOU PICK UP A BOOK, flip to the dedication, and find that, once again, the autho...
NEIL GAIMAN
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
HOWARD TAYLER
Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each ot...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
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If I had an ear 2 confide in
I would cry among my treasured friends
But who do u know that...
TUPAC SHAKUR
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DARRELL HUNTER
Never be ashamed of who you are, it is society that is a shame for not allowing us to just be.
ASHLEIGH LOUISE DOVADOLA
If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.
TIM BURTON
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GIL PERRY
Anybody is welcome to join us. It's a nice social hour for the senior citizens, and they really seem...
DOLORES HOMINSKY
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ANDREW O'HAGAN
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
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Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.
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EUGENE WHITE
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It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very ...
CARSTEN NICOLAI
It's nice for them to interact once in a while with people other than each other and their teachers.
AMY THOMPSON
We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
RALPH FIENNES
For each part is particularly qualified for ,the accomplishment of certain objects, ,and thus each i...
GURU NANAK
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JANE AUSTEN
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IAIN S. THOMAS
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JESSICA LANGE
Never read any book that is not a year old.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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JON KRAKAUER
The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybod...
KURT VONNEGUT
Inexpressible Love:To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am goi...
ROLAND BARTHES
I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable....
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
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JOHN DARNIELLE
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined... to strengthen e...
GEORGE ELIOT
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR
To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH
Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS
They were writing each other and he was trying to make preparations for her to be here.
DANIEL KAYEE
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to stre...
GEORGE ELIOT
Nice days and nice people are fine, but what I really like are things that can be described as feroc...
TAYLOR VERNON RYAN
The human race has come such a long way in such a short time and every day I wake I feel blessed tha...
TERRY LANDER
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen e...
GEORGE ELIOT
Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.
BURT BACHARACH
The extraordinary-looking pair of young people weren't holding hands, but the way they tilted ever s...
JOSEPHINE ANGELINI
I was so sad to read recently that 32 percent of fourth- graders say they never read a book for plea...
BARBARA BUSH
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
THOMAS CARLYLE
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON
GoodReads is fabulous fun, so interesting, so useful ... and the best reviewers are so loving and il...
WILLIAM DONELSON
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't ...
HILARY MANTEL
Come on, this is a success. We're not killing each other.
BARHAM SALEH
Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
RICHARD DAWSON
I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quit...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on ...
RAY BRADBURY
I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it wa...
PUSHPA RANA
The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an ent...
CORY DOCTOROW
There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - ki...
HARRY BROWNE
Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendshi...
C.S. LEWIS
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptiv...
MAYA RUDOLPH
But if they didn't think it was a joke, or if anybody took it the wrong way other than a joke, when ...
JOE GIBBS
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen ea...
GEORGE ELIOT
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined ... to strengthen ...
GEORGE ELIOT
You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, ...
MIRANDA JULY
Ugly people are not attracted to each other, they just often settle for each other.
CARL WHITE
Feel sorry for the people who refuse to apologize to you. This is their only way of staying connecte...
SUSIE L HILL
The retailers who get these economic-development incentives seem to be gaining in ways that they sho...
ALAN PETERS
I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.
RAY ROMANO

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